I grew up on a farm in rural America. My grandfather had a 1949Pontiac sedan with the Indian Chief Pontiac on the hood. It was a funny sparkly light two tone green with a flat head V8 in it and real chrome hub caps just like the cars being shown here. Man I wish we could turn back time and live as we did then. It was way better believe me. People respected each other, helped each other, and they knew what morals, values, common sense and logic were and applied them every day in their lives

Dec. 19, 2018—-Dad was born in 1932, so this was the world he grew up in in the farming part of Golconda, Illinois. Was driving truck at the time and happened to be within 20 some miles of it and I said screw it, let's go take a look. Going down a 2 lane state road and no idea what was ahead of me.Ended up parking in front of the courthouse. A cop was driving by, but just waved back at me when I waved at him. Took a couple of dozen photos of everything I could, including me in some of them. Then emailed them to Dad and he was shocked as it had been a good 10 years since he'd been home. He asked how did I get out of town and told him all I needed to do was make a couple of left hand turns.

When almost every white American was racist. When there was only white privilege. A world where most white people would love to return. A world where whites considered themselves as humans and other races as subhumans. When black men and women and children were lynched and burned in the fire.A time when white people will cut pieces of black people's flesh after they had been burnt and use them as trophies. With whites kids jumping around and celebrating on the dead bodies of black people. A world where black people had to drink different water from white people and white kids came to piss on black people's drinking water because they were brainwashed to hate. A time when black kids were hanged or executed on electric chairs, giving lots of delight and pleasure to the white man. That is what America in the 1940s was from the perspective of the black man. The United States, a nation with a very dirty history. Hmmmm the fake and false illusion behind those images….

Amazing , vibrant photographs …of a time gone by when the American dream was real and achievable …and the United States rightly was the envy of the world …..how things have changed when you examine the USA today …sad decline of a once truly GREAT nation.

I wish I could get into H.G.Wells time machine and zip my way back in a time where rules were respected, items were proudly made in USA, even the poor dressed in their best garments, no "me too" movement, no aggressive feminists complaining of sexual harassment, no Shamu whales in line for Buffets, no hippie stinking culture, no social media, no Karthrasians no K. Jenner, Oh America! Beloved United States of America, it seems like it's heading headlong to its doom, I sincerely hope that there's still hope for this great country.